The Swedish Social Democrats, Reform Socialism and the state after the Golden Era

The Swedish Social Democratic welfare state system that peaked during the 1970s was based on a common belief in the existence of strong and potent state with strong tendencies toward a de-commodification. However, with the Palme government in 1982, Social democrats accepted the idea that the welfare state should be reoriented around a prevailing notion of individualization, and be a vehicle in particular for a middle-class strategy of social mobility tightly entangled with consumer preference. In subsequent decades, a complex and multi-motivational process of privatization was carried out as a de facto alliance between Left and Right. In the 2000s, the Party has abandoned control of the welfare state as part of its reformist strategy or “power resource”.

Östberg, Kjell,1948-Södertörns högskola,Samtidshistoriska institutet(Swepub:sh)SHKLOG (author)
Uppsala University, SwedenSamtidshistoriska institutet (creator_code:org_t)

In:European Socialists and the State in the Twentieth and Twenty-First CenturiesCham : Palgrave Macmillan, s. 323-34397830304153969783030415402

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